Can D-Light Support you?

D-Light Studios is a social enterprise that supports the arts, wellbeing practitioners and not-for-profit organisations by offering them subsidised rates for the hiring of studio space.

To know if you qualify for the reduced studio hire rates, please check the criteria below.

Eligibility Criteria for Artists:

If you can tick three out of the eight items below you are eligible for the reduced rates.

  1. Degree or Diploma from a recognised third level college in a creative field Discipline eg: music, performance, photography, film etc. or similar education/training background 

  2. One-person show(s) in a publically funded (Arts Council, Local Authority, Government funded) visual arts space. 

  3. Your arts practice had caused your participation in an exhibition/event which was selected by a jury in which professional artists, recognised curators or similar participated.

  4. Your work has been purchased by Government, local authority, museum, corporate client, etc. for inclusion in a recognised collection/performance or similar.

  5. Your art work has been commissioned by Government, local authority, museum or corporate client etc. for inclusion in a recognised collection.

  6. You have been awarded a bursary, residency, materials grant or otherwise grant aided by a funding body based on your artistic practice.

  7. Have been awarded tax-exempt status based on your arts practice by the Revenue Commissioners, or are on schedule D as a self-employed artist in Northern Ireland or similar situation in another country.

  8. You are in third level education.

Eligibility Criteria for Not-for-Profit:

  1. The NPO must have a mission and purpose to further a social cause and provide a public benefit

  2. The NPO must be organised for purposes other than generating profit

  3. No part of the NPO’s income can be distributed to its members, directors, or officers


Eligibility Criteria for Well-being Practitioners:

  1. The event/workshop must be planned for wellbeing and physical/mental health reasons. 

  2. Examples are Yoga, meditation, breathwork, etc.

  3. We sometimes partner with wellness practitioners that align with D-Light’s ethos or have built up a trusted relationship with us. Please contact us to discuss this further

Please send relevant documentation to back up eligibility criteria. If you have any other relevance proof, perhaps through your artist’s CV or your website - anything that might help your case - please send to us, at info@d-lightstudios.com.

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